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ArticleMedicine2019

Observation on the curative effect of long intestinal tube in the treatment of phytobezoar intestinal obstruction.

Liang Li, Bing Xue, Qiang Zhao, Hong-Qiang Xie, Xue-Rong Luan, Qing Cui

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Article in Medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Liang LiDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
Bing XueDepartment of Internal Medicine, Zibo Central Hospital of Shandong University, Zibo, Shandong, China.
Qiang ZhaoDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
Hong-Qiang XieDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
Xue-Rong LuanDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
Qing CuiDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
Central Hospital of Zibo · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of the study was to observe the curative effect of long intestinal tube (LT) in the treatment of phytobezoar intestinal obstruction.We performed a retrospective study of patients with phytobezoar intestinal obstruction who underwent decompression with different tube insertion method. A total of 80 patients were collected and divided into nasogastric tube (NGT) group (n = 36) and LT group (n = 44) between August 2015 and August 2018 at our hospital. Univariate analysis was used to assess the clinical efficacy of 2 groups of patients.There were no significant differences in the mean age, sex ratio, and previous surgical history between the 2 groups. There were statistically significant differences between the 2 groups in terms of improvement time of clinical indications (4.2 ± 1.4 vs 2.5 ± 0.6 days; P = .008), liquid decompression amount on the first day of catheterization (870.4 ± 400.8 vs 1738.4 ± 460.2 mL; P = .000), transit operation rate (4/36 vs 0/44; P = .023), clinical cure rate (25/36 vs 40/44; P = .014), total treatment efficiency (32/36 vs 44/44; P = .023), and total hospitalization cost (3.25 ± 0.39 vs 2.07 ± 0.41 ¥ ten thousand; P = .000).The curative effect of LT in the treatment of phytobezoar intestinal obstruction is accurate and reliable, which can effectively improve the clinical symptoms of patients, comprehensively improve the non-surgical rate of intestinal obstruction treatment, reduce the total cost of hospitalization, and is worthy of promotion in clinical application.

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AgedBezoarsCase-Control StudiesChi-Square DistributionDecompression, SurgicalFemaleHumansIntestinal ObstructionIntestinesIntubation, GastrointestinalMaleMiddle AgedPostoperative ComplicationsRetrospective StudiesTreatment Outcome

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PMID30882686
PMCPMC6426573
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